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Article #623610Re: The birth of BASIC
From: Charles Richmond
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2018 05:48
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2018 05:48
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On 6/1/2018 1:14 PM, Scott Lurndal wrote: > hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com writes: >> On Friday, June 1, 2018 at 3:11:14 AM UTC-4, Quadibloc wrote: >> >>> However, BASIC for the Honeywell 316 and 516 came with a price tag, IIRC. And >>> there was CALL/360 BASIC from IBM, and I think Tymshare had BASIC... so I don't >>> think Microsoft was the first to charge money for a BASIC interpreter. >> >> GE Timesharing offered BASIC. >> >> HP offered its 2000 series with BASIC and was popular in time sharing. >> But I don't know if users of the 2000 series had to pay for the >> compiler or if it was bundled in. >> > > HP-3000 had a nice BASIC interpreter as well. > The HP 3000, and especially the HP 2000, minicomputers were popular to use in an educational setting. Several high schools/junior highs might have an HP 3000 somewhere... a machine on which each of the schools would establish dial-up accounts for their students. -- numerist at aquaporin4 dot com
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